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...hired writers and composers, then went out to raise cash in backers' auditions staged in the living rooms of friends. While four chorus girls warbled songs, Prince recited the story line and passed around a fifth of Scotch, a bag of potato chips and a ballpoint pen for prospective angels. From 164 investors, he raised $250,000 for the show-The Pajama Game. It is still playing on the road, so far has earned $1,850,000. Prince has never since had to worry about backers...
Singer decided that the ballpoint pen had become so common that Scripto's $1.98 model was overpriced, abolished it in favor of a wider-selling $1 pen...
...Michigan State University, Hugh ("Duffy") Daugherty, 50 (TIME cover, Oct. 8, 1956), has learned to live with insults. He has had to. Michigan State has never won a Big Ten championship, and the Spartans have not been to the Rose Bowl since 1956. Alumni have written Duffy poison pen letters (including one that was mailed in Detroit and addressed simply to "Duffy the Dope"), and students have naturally hanged him in effigy. Daugherty has taken it all with rare humor. "A football coach's main problem," he shrugs, "is that he is responsible to irresponsible people." He once confided...
...always, Updike's lean, acrobatic prose makes his performance look effortless: sunlight is "like raw ore still heaped on the upper half of the barn wall," birds on a wire "darkly punctuated an invisible sentence." One sweep of his pen can illuminate whole facets of life: after Joey's mother suffers a severe and terrifying attack of angina, 11-year-old Richard hurries to the homestead to see "a parade he was afraid of missing and afraid of catching...
...left a performance of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, I tried to recall the last drama of such stature to come from a British pen. Anything on Pinter, Osborne, Fry, Eliot? No. Then I realized that Royal Hunt is the finest British play since Shaws Saint Joan burst on the boards four decades...